A Watch as Big as a Ribston Pippin

The twenty-fifth episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Lord of the Flies episode.

SMFMS Bookends 25: Lord of the Flies

We All Need a Scape-Pig

Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. This season, we are only looking at banned and controversial texts. In our seventy-third episode, and to celebrate Internation Men's Day, we look at our blokiest book yet: William Golding's Lord of the Flies (1954). Our accents get a workout, we debate the correct pronunciation of 'conch', and learn that they don't teach this kind of thing on Nickelodeon (or, indeed, Nick At Nite). Cover art © Catherine Wu. Episode Theme: Kampen Boys Choir, 'O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem'.

Episode 73 - Lord of the Flies

Dogsh*t Heaven

The twenty-fourth episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Dante's Inferno episode.

SMFMS Bookends 24: Dante's Inferno

Save Me From My Guelph

Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. This season, we are only looking at banned and controversial texts. In our seventy-second episode, we invite Friend of the Podcast (and Abby's best friend/medieval historian) Justine back to the show to school us on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. We focus primarily on the 'Inferno' section and get really caught up on Dante being a civil engineering girlie. Cover art © Catherine Wu. Episode Theme: Motet, 'Ypocrite / Velut stelle / Et gaudebit' (14th century)

Episode 72 - Dante's Inferno (and rest of the Divine Comedy)

AWOL, Pronounced AWOL

The twenty-third episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Catcher in the Rye episode.

SMFMS Bookends 23: Catcher in the Rye

Is We A Doctor?

Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. This season, we are only looking at banned and controversial texts. In our seventy-first episode, we look at a controversial text of teenage rebellion and grief-trauma that has attracted a LOT of weird loners over the years: J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (1951). In this episode, Daniel takes a big L over David Copperfield, we have Buckfast at Tiffany's, spend a long time discussing Howard Hughes's design of the perfect bra, and realise that this should have been our Christmas episode. Cover art © Catherine Wu. Episode Theme: Larry Wagner, 'Autopsy on Schubert' (1937).

Episode 71 - The Catcher in the Rye

Abby's Trash Can

The twenty-second episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Fahrenheit 451 episode.

SMFMS Bookends 22: Fahrenheit 451

We're Part of the Problem

Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. This season, we are only looking at banned and controversial texts. In our seventieth episode, Ray Bradbury's literary-based dystopia, Fahrenheit 451 (1953), we get one step closer to EGOT-ing, see more of Abby's French-Canadian Vermonter roots, process Daniel's early cinema trauma, and discuss some scholastic terms: fridging, Bowlderisation, and Futurismo. Cover art © Catherine Wu. Episode Theme: Tchaikovsky, 'Valse Sentimental' by Clara Rockmore on theramin.

Episode 70 - Fahrenheit 451

Another Secret Baby????

The twenty-first episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Fanny Hill episode.

SMFMS Bookends 21: Fanny Hill

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We're friends and academics who take classic literature off its pedestal by making fun of it.

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